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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Implement strict user copy checks for x86_64
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:54:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110707145413.90578915.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306865673-20560-4-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>

On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:14:32 -0700
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org> wrote:

> Strict user copy checks are only really supported on x86_32 even
> though the config option is selectable on x86_64. Add the
> necessary support to the 64 bit code to trigger copy_from_user()
> warnings at compile time.

I'm still reluctant to go and throw a pile of warnings into many
people's faces without having made an attempt to fix them.


We get a screen full of these:

    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:877:
/usr/src/devel/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:64: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1145:
/usr/src/devel/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:64: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
...

and I don't immediately see a way of suppressing them without adding
additional code.

Ideas?

       reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-07-07 21:54   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-07-08  1:15     ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: Implement strict user copy checks for x86_64 Stephen Boyd

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